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CND Creative Play Celebration Collection Swatches & Review

Nails just wanna have fun with the eight festive polishes in the CND Creative Play Celebration Collection!

With an assortment of dazzling glitters, smooth-as-silk cremes, and more, this is the collection you’ll want to break out for a night on the town, sitting by the fireside on Christmas Eve, and ringing in the New Year in style.

The cremes (Naughty or Vice and Happy Holly Day) apply like a sugarplum-fairy dream and are pigmented. No painting hiccups. I used two coats for each.

The playful glitters (Extravaglint, Stellarbration, and Turquoise Tidings) are excellent for layering one coat over another colour. They’re great for sprucing up an old manicure and giving it some seasonal sizzle.

Turquoise Tidings is the only one from the glitter bunch that you could also wear solo. With three coats, it covered well and had a mystical mermaid glimmer that photos can’t do justice. (See it in person for the Wow Factor!)

The other two glitters are sparse, so they’re best used as toppers. (Also, in Stellarbration, there’s some star confetti. It can be a bit tricky to fish them out and place them with a brush, so you may want to use a thin, precise tool like a toothpick.)

The yellow, Foiled Again, is much more golden and flashy than it appears in my swatch. It’s certainly a blingy polish that catches the light. The pigmentation on this was great, as I only needed two coats to fully cover my nails.

Revelry Red is a traditional Santa red that’s ideal for the holidays, but instead of being flat, it gets extra festive with small glitter and microshimmer. Instead of being blingy, this one subtly twinkles.

RSVPlum has an icy appearance, and I recommend carefully painting this on straight because the brushstrokes, while subtle, are still noticeable up close.

Check out the rest of this post to see a closer look at my swatches of all eight colours and to see the press release for the colour story!

There are eight shades in the CND Creative Play Celebration Collection:

Stellarbration

Turquoise Tidings

Foiled Again

CND Creative Play Foiled Again (2 coats)

RSVPlum

CND Creative Play RSVPlum (2 coats)

CND Creative Play Nail Lacquer Celebration Collection Press Release

This season calls for a celebration of colour! Rock the party. Show off with 8 new festive shades that are just as unexpected as you are. CND, the global leader in professional nail products and services, introduces the new Creative Play™Nail Lacquer Celebration collection and invites you to play way past midnight.

Traditional three-step nail lacquer system (Base, Colour and Top Coat)

Removes easily with CND™Nourishing Remover

Also available as a gift set of 5 minis! CND Creative Play Celebration! Collection 5-Pack includes new Creative Play Celebration! shades “Foiled Again,” “Revelry Red,” “Happy Holly Day,” “Extravaglint,” and “Stellarbration”

SRP:

CND Creative Play Celebration! Nail Lacquer: $8.50

CND Creative Play Celebration! Collection 5-Pack: $23.90

Availability:

Available September 2016 as a salon service and for retail in select salons worldwide – CND.com/find-salon